2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumLet's abolish primary elections altogether.
Especially for selecting presidential nominees. Instead, we'll tally social media posts and discussion forum polls, add in online polling, and nominate the person with the most buzz and highest numbers on those venues.
It's the 21st century after all. Primary elections are, like, obsolete and take way too much of people's precious time. Twitter, FB, YouTube and Reddit are real. Voting is for geezers.
Feel the Nerd!
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)Lockdown Washington and install Bernie Sanders as President for Life.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)the result is the same, and there's a lot less stress.
Maru Kitteh
(29,160 posts)And I know it sucks for you - but DEMOCRATIC VOTERS voted for Hillary and that's how she won. Sorry. This isn't like your T-ball team where everyone gets to be "the Champions" just for showing up and screaming from the bench.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(121,119 posts)where party hacks picked the nominees - kind of like DWS has been doing with the DNC.
MineralMan
(147,677 posts)No way.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)She is doing her job. It is not necessary that non-Democrats approve of her.
Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)After all, we have so many highly educated political and policy experts here that can tap away their pearls of wisdom at the keyboard. Not to mention the experts in World History and Foreign Affairs.
MineralMan
(147,677 posts)We need to count other things, like Facebook likes, YouTube views, sub-reddits and online polls after debates. Things like that that truly measure public opinion of people who are all engaged and stuff. You know, real-world datums and things.
Time to move into the honest, true digital age and like that.
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)Why don't we just let the big corporate donor's pick them. Whoever gets the most cash wins.
I'm With HER donors
aspirant
(3,533 posts)because of conflicts of interest and pick from the 90-99% pool
MineralMan
(147,677 posts)Buy just one $2 ticket, you know, to show you're serious. Then on the first Tuesday in November the winner would be drawn and would become President. Anyone could win, no matter who he or she was.
Simple, clean and fair, right?
aspirant
(3,533 posts)If we excluded them we could get rid of most of the Senate, a lot of the House and the Bloombergs, Trumpies, Bushes, Clinton's and others. What a refreshing breeze.
MineralMan
(147,677 posts)That would even things out. 99% aren't millionaires. Simple.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)MineralMan
(147,677 posts)Why not?
Maru Kitteh
(29,160 posts)That's VERY important! It's a sign from the universe, totally.
MineralMan
(147,677 posts)Or, you could put the candidates naked in a fee-range chicken enclosure and count peck marks.
pmorlan1
(2,096 posts)Mineral Man...last time you were posting about Bernie with his hand in the wrong place and now you're posting about candidates being naked in chicken enclosures ? Have you got a thing for farm animals?
MineralMan
(147,677 posts)Explains everything.